This tutorial is a three part series. This is the third part in which you will learn how to perform the Doorway Folder Trick in MS Windows IIS FTP with easy to follow steps. Good Luck!
Part 1 and Part 2 of the series.
Objective: To create a customized login with access to some of the folders in a site.
In the previous two parts we learned how to leverage virtual directories and physical folders to offer a lot of control from IIS FTP. Now, what about when we want to have one site administrator have access to more than one, but not all, of the directories in a site? How is this accomplished from within IIS FTP?
Let’s view this visually so that it’s easier to see where we are heading. Below is a picture of a fresh server build on Windows XP with the Default FTP Site. In this example I have used FTP root path as D:\SSGWeb\ftproot\DummyFolder which points to 6 sites that we’ll pretend that I manage. You can see…read more…
